Youth Ministry
Since 1994 I have been working with teenagers and adults in every youth ministry capacity out there. From the large church context, volunteer leader, youth leader trainer, camp director, retreat
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a Few Thoughts
Changeable Poster Display
May 16th, 2012
Forgot I took a photo of this. Have seen these display set ups in a number of places. This is a set poster display board where the posters are removable as they rotate out of relevancy. Cool thing with this is that you have a visual display, the items are held together in a clean [...]
read more...An App for Your Youth Ministry Event
May 16th, 2012
One of the great things about being a part of our local Youth Pastors Anonymous group is that I can regularly hang out with some awesome people who challenge the normal processes of ministry. A recent, and upcoming, undertaking is a training by our net…
read more...Exploring Early Wesleyan Movement in Youth Ministry : the Class Meeting
May 15th, 2012
If you have heard me speak at a workshop or keynote event or been in the proximity of me while I have been on my soap box there has been a theme you probably heard. A theme that there is some holy mystery from the early Methodist movement that is part of our DNA we…
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The Jesus Stache
May 14th, 2012
The Jesus Stache
May 14th, 2012
Funny, I’ve never seen it before. Jesus has a super cool stache. The pursed lips do not help setting up his manly mustache, but I’ll call that as him not knowing the picture was being taken.
shalom -gavin http://youthworkercircuit.com | …
read more...Happy Mothers Day
May 12th, 2012
The Dad Unit and I did our traditional Mothers Day sidewalk drawings. We had fun, as usual, and the Mother Unit loved it. An afternoon rain though didn’t think to highly of our craftwork. Now it’s all gone. Bummer. Maybe we can do it again …
read more...Look the Youth Minister is in the Pulpit! 7 tips to doing the youth minister sermon
May 12th, 2012
It is going to happen. Somewhere along the line the pastor/s will ask you to give a sermon, from the pulpit, on a Sunday, in front of every one in church (well, at least those who show up that Sunday). Do not panic. You have got this & here are
read more...Look the Youth Minister is in the Pulpit! 7 tips to doing the youth minister sermon
May 12th, 2012
It is going to happen. Somewhere along the line the pastor/s will ask you to give a sermon, from the pulpit, on a Sunday, in front of every one in church (well, at least those who show up that Sunday). Do not panic. You have got this & here are
read more...Grow Up Youth Worker
May 11th, 2012
In a youth ministry career that is coming up on 20 years I have been around a number of fellow youth ministers. They all, with rare exception, have been wonderful people.
One short coming that I see over and over again, in my opinion, is the need to t…
Pinteresting Youth Ministry Room Ideas
May 11th, 2012
Pinterest as an image based bookmarking site makes it a pretty awesome way to find some youth room ideas. I found this one pin board which is dedicated to ‘youth room ideas‘ and it has some pretty neat ideas curated already. As well, you can check out if there are some new ideas people have [...]
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